Rhode’s canvas: Westbury walls
An edited version of the essay ‘Broken Wall: Robin Rhode’s Theatre of Place’ from the book ‘The Geometry of Colour’ (Rhodeworks/Skira)
Summer Reading
New vision of a historical moment
The reader navigates themes such as migration, black masculinity, displacement, aspirations, racial identity and sexuality before wokeness
Art and graphics
Conrad Botes makes a comment on censorship, while Zapiro has his finger on the pulse as usual
Batting for the empire
An exhaustive book provides the political, social and sporting backdrop to the 1912 triangular Test tournament between England, Australia and SA.
Naivity, novelty and the writer’s art
<b>Imraan Coovadia</b> finds the points of difference in two authors’ approaches to writing.
Does a virgin have to be female?
An alternate take on the Messiah’s birth brings
modern women’s issues into the picture.
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The wild life of a mild revolutionary
Erich Rautenbach begins this wild and somewhat melancholic memoir with his arrest by two drug-squad cops.
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Old magic and future worlds
<b>Gwen Ansell</b> rounds up some of the latest science fiction and fantasy releases.
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Multilayered but one-sided
It has much going for it, but Stephenson’s stereotypical treatment of Muslim terrorists lets his latest novel down.
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Son of HAL feeds on fear
<em>The Fear Index</em>, a financial what-if, takes place entirely on the day that the Blair-Brown years officially ended: May 6 2010, election day.
What might have been
Ivan Vladislavic plays not only with the idea of unwritten books or stories, but also with the idea of finishing itself.
Ivan in bite-size complexity
For avid readers of Vladislavic’s eight books, this collection is a worthy, accessible reference to keep close.
Conquering the epics
The creator of the popular <i>Conqueror</i> and <i>Emperor</i> series does immaculate detail through broad strokes
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A bloody good read
This ultra-readable pop-historical epic is the fourth bulky instalment of a sequence about the rise of the Mongol khans.
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Stocking fillers?
Darryl Accone breaks down Exclusive Books’s list of recommended summer reading.
